Timid SNP are nothing more than Tory Lite, says Kezia Dugdale

NICOLA Sturgeon and her ministers have spent their entire political lives claiming they want to make different decisions to the Tories.
But when that option is available to them, time and time again the SNP have shied away from the radical alternatives that our country needs.
Their true colours were on display at the party’s annual conference in Glasgow.
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